Life To The Full with Nancy Campbell
Life To The Full with Nancy Campbell
Episode 1 - GOD WANTS TO DWELL IN YOUR HOME
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Speaker 2:welcome ladies to our very first podcast. So many have been asking me to do a podcast for so long and it last. I am doing it. It's so lovely to be with you and I pray that this is going to be a wonderful blessing to you is I come to you from my home to your home. You have already been welcomed and that was by my lovely grandson, Rocky Barrett that is posed son. His name is actually Rocklin, Jefferson parish, and he was named after Pearl's brother. That's my son, Rockland and Charlie's brother. She has for sin, so he has a real family name and also with me here in our studio. Today is another wonderful grandson, arden allison, who is serines oldest son and he's doing the recording for us. We had also hoped to have challenge with us today because she is going to learn from arden, so eventually she can take over. A garden is kept very busy filming for trim, healthy Mama and doing lots of projects of his own just this last weekend, uh, with many of the other cousins and a few extra besides, uh, he was filming a great survival movie, which we hope will also be coming out in good time when they've got all the editing done. But anyway, we're here together at last and I welcome you all the children who are listening, the mothers who are listening, young mums, middling moms, and even the older moms. I hope the older maddens and not running away because I believe that we as older moms need to be encouraged and refreshed in our annointing of mothering as much as when we were younger. The reason is is that we now have the responsibility to teach and show the young mothers how they are to mother and how they are to be wives. And so we need constant refresher courses. I find as an older mother that I need to continually seek the Lord, continually search his word to know what he is saying and to know his truth for the young mums. Because this is my responsibility as it is the responsibility of every older mother. So I hope we can all be in this together. Now, what will we do on these podcasts, which we will send out once a week to you. I will be speaking of course about parenting, about motherhood, about being a wife and a being in the home. And, uh, also I will be open to answering your questions, which you can send to me@Nancyataboverubies.org, but poor question in the, a subheading in the heading titled Place. So I will pick it up. Otherwise I may miss it. And also I will introduce to you from time to time, uh, some of our family members and get them to share and other people who I will invite onto the program. Uh, we have lots of the family who live around us on this hilltop. We are right here kind of in the center. And uh, we have just a couple of minutes through the woods. We have evangelists and Howard and their family living and their children. Uh, we used to have a couple of minutes through the wards in another direction, a pearl and Charlie and their children, although, uh, just before Christmas that house burned down and so it's no longer there, praise the Lord. They were already in the process of building another home just up the road and they were able to move into that, which was a wonderful blessing. And then we have serene and Sam and their family living just over the road, just a little beautiful walks through the woods about 15 minutes or so to their place. So we have our oldest daughter's around us here on the hilltop and so many wonderful, amazing grandchildren. Our sons live in the city and uh, also, uh, our adopted children from Liberia, they now live in the city too, but they are still close, only about an hour away. And uh, so, uh, hopefully you'll get to meet different ones from time to time. So now, today I would like to just start sharing with you about the home. I love home, don't you? God loves home because he is the one who designed the home. He's the one who's sort of it, and he was the first home designer and he created the first home. The first home, as you know, was called the garden of Eden. Now in the Hebrew Eden means delight and this was the prototype of all homes to come. Everything that God wrote about in the first two or three chapters of genesis where his prototype, his plan for how we are to live right up to this 21st century are today, and so we know that God wants us to make our homes a delight and this is what he intended them to be, but recently I've been studying more to find out more and more how God feels about the home and I found in the word of God the word dwell too, too well in our homes actually talking about a dwelling place for God, a dwelling place for us because our God is ultimately an to welling God. He loves to wow. He. He doesn't just float in space. He is a literal dwelling God and back in the Old Testament, we read of how God tonight to dwell with his people. Even in the Wilderness and he dwelled in a change for the Habanero, echo in the wilderness was a temporary thing. It could travel from place to place and God, Danes and God the universe, the God who was so high, the potentate, the king of kings and Lord of Lords deigned to dwell in a tent in a temporary tabernacle with his people because he wanted to be with them. And, and he says, I will come and I will dwell with you and I will walk with you. And he dwelled there. And the children of Israel, they knew that God was there because in the day there was a pillar of cloud over the. And in the evening, the night time, there was a pillar of fire. And they knew that God was dwelling in the holy of holies with all his Shchuchye and glory. And they dwelled roundabout that tabernacle that, that went on. And then eventually, uh, the temporary tabernacle was finished. And then, uh, David who got the vision for the Tampa, we'll pass it on to his son Solomon, who built the temple. And then God came and dwelled in the holy of holies in the temple in Jerusalem. But then there came a day when that was over and Jesus died upon the cross. And when that happened, that sick veil between the holy place in the holy of holies was tone apart. Up till that time, only the high priest could enter into that holy of holies and he couldn't go in without sacrificing and and shedding the blood and taking the blood in with him to cover his sin and the sins of this family and the sins of the nation. And He went in with the incense just billowing and filling you, filling that holy of holies because he could not see God face to face. But then when Jesus died, that was just finished and God said, now I'm going to come and do well. And in different temple, I'm going to come in your temple, your body. And now our bodies are called the temple of the Holy Spirit. And he dwells in us. If we have received him into our lives, into a hearts, he literally dwells in us. But we, we go on. And, and we look into eternity, and, and in revelation, John is giving us pictures of the eternal realm. And, and, uh, there he, he gives a beautiful picture of God. Uh, let me take you to it. Let's see if I can find it in my Bible here. I love this passage. Yes, here it is in revelation 21, verse three. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle, the dwelling place of God is with men. God chooses to 12 with us, his people, and he says, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And so we, we understand how God loves to dwell. He will always dwell with his people. And so I found 468 times that the word dwell is mentioned in the Bible. But when we read the words, well, we find that it's not all the same word in the Hebrew. And, and, uh, there are many different Hebrew words for the word dwell. And so I found 31 different Hebrew words plus for the word dwell, plus about five meaning temporary dwelling and I found 16 Greek words in the New Testament, all food dwelling, how God wants us to dwell in our homes and how he wants to come and dwell with us in us and in our homes. And then I also found that a 23 different Hebrew words and then 31 different Greek words in the New Testament for sitting at a table and eating meals in our home. Now ladies, that's over 100 different words that are used for dwelling in our homes, for being in our homes and sitting at our table and eating food together. That's how interested God is in our lives, especially in our home life. Because right at the beginning it started off with the home before our business and before church and before government, before all the things that are part of our lives. Today, it was first God instigated marriage, family and the home because this is how he wants us to live and he wants us to live in our homes. He doesn't want to just have homes that we come, oh, well, we come into them every now and then and we sleep in them for the night. No, he actually wants us to dwell in our homes now. That word means to abide in him, to remain in there, to make our life in them. And uh, I love to talk a little bit about this today and perhaps in other sessions about making out and lives in a home. I hear lots of mothers often saying a word such as, well, I don't know. I get bored with being at home. Others will say, well, I love my children, but I don't really love being at home. Others even say I'm miserable at home. Bought just a minute. Ladies. I want you to be careful of what you say because when we say those negative words, you know what we're really saying. We talking about ourselves. If we say, oh, I'm bored at home, what we're really saying is, I'm a boring person. Now. If we say, oh, I'm miserable at home. What we're really saying is I'm a miserable person because home is what we may kids DNA. These, you as a mother determine than life in your home. You determine what it's going to be like. It was going to be boring and miserable and unhappy, or you determine whether it's going to be exciting, fulfilling a doctors, a creative, and, and, uh, all the wonderful things that you want life to be, what either your, you want your life to be. You can make it happen in your home. For this is when life begins. And this is where the majority of our life should happen. And especially for us as mothers in the home, yes, our husbands are going to go out, they go out to, uh, earn the living to provide so faithfully for us so we can be at home and create this wonderful environment, this exciting environment where there's something always happening, uh, because we're making it happen. Many homes are just boring because the mother and the Hoa is not actually making anything happened because to make things happen, well, we just have to give up of our seat and make them happen. It takes effort, it takes work, it takes thinking about it, it takes creative ideas, but I want to give You a vision today. Dm Mothers, please don't just become a victim of your circumstances. When I know that, yes, you can get tired in your home with your little ones running around and yes, you often have to do the same things every day to keep the home running smoothly and you've got to get your laundry done. Got to keep those dishes down. You've got to keep your place clean. You've got to keep those meals on the table and you've got to watch over your little ones. Yes. Do you know that every single task can be exciting according to the attitude that you have? You can make every task exciting and even in the midst of all the basic things that you just have to do each day, you can fit in exciting things, beautiful things, lovely things, but you've got to think about them. You've got to ask God to give you creative ideas and to show you what you can do because life can be one big party in the home. This is what our home is like here. Yes, there's another party tonight here. Colin and I, we have to go out this evening to, um, our granddaughters home for a meal, so that will be beautiful, but a while we're out. The young people want to have a games night. It's one of the birthdays, so there'll be another party here. I don't think we go hardly a week by in this home without there's a party or some function happening now. Sometimes they are, some of the grandchildren and others saying, can we had our party here? Nana, but many times I am thinking about what I can do to make something exciting happened so that home is never boring. There's always something exciting happening and also it's a place of product it where we are accomplishing things. Now I have to just put in a little something here and a dear precious young mums who are listening. Maybe you're in that season in life is filled with season. Maybe you're in that season now where you've got one, you three or maybe four little ones around you and you can't even just add one more thing to your day. If you can get through and just get those meals cooked and just keep basically in house. You have who you have just made it, and I want to encourage you. Please don't despair. Realize that you are doing powerful work. There is nothing more powerful than raising and caring for and cheering and laughing. Precious little lives that God has given to you. God gave you these little babies and toddlers. He gave them to you. He calls them my children and he gives them to you. He's given commission you to care for them and nurture them for him to nurture them with his heart and that heart of love. He's put in your heart for them and you're doing a great job. You are accomplishing great things. You're accomplishing great things, not only for now and the future, but for each heredity. So please be encouraged. Now, some of you may be middling bums and your little toddlers and growing up that getting bigger. And uh, as children grow up, they then become a wonderful help to you and they can help you with your little ones. And life actually becomes easier as your family becomes bigger because the older children grow, the more responsible and more capable they become and the more able they are to help you in the home and, and help you with projects. And uh, it becomes a different season. I know sometimes some young mothers look on mothers with larger families and living how, how could I ever have so many children? Oh goodness me. Can I tell you a little secret? The most challenging time of motherhood is when your babies I just little. And you don't have any older ones to help you. You are their sole entertainment. They need you 24 hours a day and you are doing everything for them. And it's a glorious, beautiful time. But it's perhaps the most challenging time. I want to tell you, it won't always be like that. There will come a time when these little darlings group bigger. And then when you have another baby, they've grown biggest still and when you have another baby. Wow, you've got bigger children and uh, so life becomes easier. Well, that's why I don't have challenges with us today because Serene said, oh, two of my girls have had to go out and so, oh, chalice with me today because she will need help with the little ones and she can do amazing and accomplish so many incredible things because she has the most amazing, wonderful, capable, older daughter's in her home. And so we go through all these seasons in our mothering and in our homes. But I would just like to just give you perhaps one today. Uh, one of these words. As I said, I found over a hundred words and I don't think I'll ever have time to tell you about them all, but I will just tell you about some of them so we can learn and get more understanding about our homes. Now, the word I'd like to tell you about today is the Hebrew word Nava it spelled in a v, e, h, and in the strong's concordance, it's the number five, one, one six. Now it's a beautiful word. It's a word that is used for home in the Bible. It's used to describe God's Whoa. It was used to describe his temple. It's also used to describe our homes. It's even used to describe homes for animals and for flocks, and this word also means to be lovely, to be pleasant, to be satisfied, and so those are descriptions God gives of the home. Now let me take you to a lovely scripture a, and he killed 34, 34 and verse 14. Now this whole chapter of Zika or 34 is God writing to the shepherds of Israel. Now these shepherds had failed miserably. They had not shepherded the sheep. They had not fed the sheep and God was just giving warning to them. Uh, but as we read this chapter, we can also just take it to our hearts as mothers because the word shepherding in the Bible is very much a, the word that also means mothering. We'll look at that a little bit in a moment, but let me read you. Verse 14. And God says, I will feed them in a good posture. Now, the whole thing here is God is giving an allegory. God writes lots of allegories, and this time he's talking about the children of Israel coming back to the land of Israel. Now, we at this moment, this very moment in history, uh, seeing the fulfillment of this chapter in as Achy or 34 and have been for many years as God's people. The Jews have been coming back from the four corners of the earth. We know how that they were scattered because they had turned away from God and God had to turn them out of the land, their land that belonged to them, that God had given to them as an eternal, an everlasting possession. But he had to just vomit them out of the land. But he did not forget his people. And he promised that he would bring them back and he will bring them back to the land and he would bless them in the land. And we're seeing this today, uh, with seeing them come back more and more and more to the land and Israel becoming a prosperous nation. And now praise the Lord. Our own nation of USA has now pushed their embassy in Jerusalem and acknowledging the divine truth that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the world. We can praise the Lord for that and we can thank the Lord for President who has done that and I pray that God will put his favor and blessing upon him for standing with his truth, but this is the allegory he's talking about, the children of Israel coming back and he says, and I will see them in a good posture and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be their show. They lie in a good fold and in effect posture. They shall feed upon the mountains of Israel and it's literally talking about people, about his people coming back to the land, about the literally establishing and settling on the mountains of Israel. Now, I have seen this with my very eyes. I had been out to the West Bank. I had visited with settlers in their homes on the West Bank, on the mountains of Sumeria and seeing how these people have gone out to settle their fulfilling Bible prophecy. Here it is written in the word, it's so amazing, but God is like giving them to a flock of sheep who had shepherds, who didn't watch over them, but now he says he's going to be their shepherd and bring them back and feed them and he's going to put them in their full. They fold. Now, that word there is the word we're talking about. It's the word Nava. That word that speaks about our homes here. It's talking about like a phone for sheep, but it's literally talking about homes for people because it's people God is talking about. And so, uh, this is their fold and that's what God wants. How he wants us to see our homes like a phone, a fold for our little flock that he has given us. Maybe you've caught a little flock, some of you may have a bigger flock. Some of you, you're in middling stage and you'll flock is growing, but your children, they are your little flock and you are the shepherd. And God wants you to just gather them in your fault because fold is a beautiful word. It's actually a noun and a verb. We have a fold at home, but we're also two fold to fold to tend to our little lambs and sheep. And uh, we'll look at that in a little minute to, by going back to the beginning of the CSI Akil 34. It says here, and the word of the Lord came unto me saying, son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God unto the shepherds. Whoa. These are the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves. And do you know what? There's an exclamation mark right off to that statement. We don't read many exclamation marks in the Bible when we do, we better watch out. And here is one of them will be to the shepherds that do feed themselves. Exclamation mark should not the shepherds feed the flocks. You see, feeding is very much part of shepherding. It's really one of the biggest roles of the shepherd is to feed his flock, to take his flock, to good pasture, to green pasture, to make sure it's safe and it's healthy and it's good and it's rich. So they will grow. And, and uh, so that's the, the job of the Shabbat is also the job of us as mothers and so we have a big task to, to feed our little flock. Now this is talking about literal physical feeding, but not only because feeding is so much bigger than that. It's the leading physically, but also emotionally, mentally, spiritually in every way. We are the feeders, the shepherds, the nurturer is the mothers, mothers of our little flock, and we have to watch what it says here. Wow woes are the shepherds who feed themselves. Now we have to watch that. We don't get taken up and drawn out of our homes to feed on other things. I'm not talking about feeding on the word because we all need that sustenance of feeding on the word, but we can feed on many things. We can feed on vein things. We can just feed on pleasure. We can feed on things that we want to do. We can feed on selfishness and we can feed on, I need my own time and I need this and I need my own space. And so on. That is also feeding. It's feeding ourselves and den mothers. I hear so many mothers today. It seems to be the vocabulary of the modern mother that I must have time for myself and I must be able to do this and I must be free to do that, and yes, to a little extent that is true, but that's not the heart of the shepherd and we see this here. Fact, what does a true shepherd, jr? He lays down his life for the sheep. That's the true heart of the shepherd laying down our lives, not feeding our own life, so that's a little warning to us there as mothers don't feed ourselves. Shouldn't we be feeding off? That shouldn't be out own ultimate passion to be feeding our flock and then it goes on in verses a three to five and it talks about all the things that the shepherd shepherds didn't do and I'll read them out to you and that pretty challenging and I'm sure that you are doing all of these, but I think it's good to read them again because it's good to be encouraged and I do want to encourage you in these podcasts, but will you mind? Sometimes I just challenge you as well because I love to be challenged myself. Hey, I need challenge. I want to be challenged every day because it's challenge that spurs me on to the ultimate vision that God has, so man, all that he has for us as mothers and women in the power of our role. Anyway. These are the things that God says to the shepherds who weren't doing their job. You have not fed your flow. You have not strengthened the weak. You have not healed the sick. You have not bound up the broken. You have not brought back the strays. You have not sought after the last. You have let your floppy scattered. You have led your flock, become a prey meet to every beast of the field. That last sentence really gets to me because I see many today of course I expected in the secular world that is often a disturbs me when godly parents let their precious children become a pray and I do believe, forgive me for saying so because I know it upset some people, but it might end up being the case many years ago, but I believe it is today in our public schools today as we send our vulnerable, precious little children into these schools and even out old children that becoming a prey prey to the enemy who is brainwashing them. Just filling their minds with his agenda because the public school agenda Drs. Mothers is not God's agenda. It's not the Bible agenda and they don't even allow Bible in schools. They don't allow prayer in schools, but they wanted to give a humanist agenda, a feminist agenda. More than that today now we are facing the battle. All the whole gay agenda coming into our schools more and more forcefully and how children are being. Even kindergarten children are being suddenly faced with these ideologies that is so against God and even the Muslim agenda. Yes, that is coming in and there are chilled. Even in my state here of Tennessee, there are schools who have had to go through the whole I'm Muslim prayers and goodness knows what, and yet we can't even pointed God. I mean, where are we at and how can we as those who are God fearing Bible but leaving men and women of God, sandown, Darling children should be prey to the enemy to be filled with all this junk. Oh goodness me. We can't do that. We've got a full. We're shepherd with quite a flow out flow. Put them and God damn well. Anyway. Lovely ladies. I've been talking too much when now, so we'll end this session and we'll talk more about it in the next session. Can I pray with you def? Father, I thank you so much. What if we precious mother listening? Every child, every team, every old Amanda, every widow. Lord, I ask that you will come and pour out your blessing and annointing upon them. Now I pray that you will encompass them about with your holy presence. Let them know that you're with them in the home, in the kitchen with their around them. Know and let them know they're in your very fake will and you were smiling appalling because you're fulfilling your commission. Oh God. Just filled them with joy. Just fill them with the affirmation of your love and knowing that they are walking in your well. It just bless their husbands, bless their homes, just less. I'm today. I just invoke your blessing upon each one and the name of.